Make ye then a mighty effort, that the purity and sanctity
which, above all else, are cherished by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, shall distinguish the
people of Bahá; that in every kind of excellence the people of God shall
surpass all other human beings; that both outwardly and inwardly they shall
prove superior to the rest; that for purity, immaculacy, refinement, and the preservation
of health, they shall be leaders in the vanguard of those who know. And that by
their freedom from enslavement, their knowledge, their self-control, they shall
be first among the pure, the free and the wise.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from
the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
